SELVAGEM WAYS OF KNOWING LAB (LAS)
Experiences involving schools and universities in search of more loving and wild teaching practices.
In what ways does the school integrate the territory into its learning experiences, recognizing and communicating ancestral knowledge in the schooling process of children and teachers?
The question does not seek single answers, but rather shifts in perspective. It invites us to observe how the territory enters the classroom, how children, young people, and teachers relate to the world around them, and how ancestral knowledge ceases to be a content and becomes practice, presence, and connection.
In 2026, the Selvagem Ways of Knowing Lab (LAS) carries out actions in the five Brazilian regions through workshops, educational field outings, teacher training, research, and university extension programs. The project strengthens the implementation of the Brazilian Law 11.645/2008 – which requires the inclusion of Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous history and culture in Brazilian school curricula – and promotes dialogue between ancestral knowledge and contemporary education.
VERONICA PINHEIRO
Coordinator of the Selvagem Ways of Knowing Lab
Veronica Pinheiro is a researcher, artist, and educator. She coordinates the Laboratório de Aprendizagens Selvagem (LAS), where she develops and monitors teaching and learning processes in dialogue with Indigenous and Quilombola communities and schools, linking education, territory, ancestral knowledge, and intercultural learning. She holds a master’s degree in Contemporary Arts and Culture and is a doctoral student at PPGARTES/UERJ, where she conducts research on the cosmopoetics of Tikmũ’ũn chants. She is also an associate researcher at the Polyglot Lab at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, expanding research and collaboration networks centered on indigenous languages, ancestral knowledge, and intercultural learning practices.
